Rowe, 42, was charged with a probation violation in January for seeing a convicted sex offender despite her own probation terms forbidding contact with other convicted felons. Rowe pleaded guilty in 2011 to a felony sex offense and admitted having sex with a 15-year-old boy she had given alcohol to at a New Year’s Eve party in her home.

A probation violation charge was filed after she was caught dating a convicted sex offender she had met while serving her sentence at a work release facility in Adrian. She was charged with a second violation in January after her probation officer reported discovering the romance had continued in secret last year.

Noe threatened a prison term when Rowe pleaded guilty to the second violation in January. Defense attorney James Daly of Adrian argued for a two-month delay to give Rowe an opportunity to make amends.

“We would ask that she not go to prison at this time, your honor,” Daly said Wednesday.

“There’s no defending her conduct and her relationship,” Daly said. But she has not committed any new offenses, he said, and has continued to be successfully employed.

“She has done an excellent job of being a contributing member of the community,” Daly said. She has completed payment of all court costs, fees and restitution ordered in the case, he said.

Rowe apologized to the court and said she has talked at length with her probation officer in the past two months.

Noe said there is a risk of harm in associating with other sex offenders.

“I know you know it in your head. I worry when you associate with someone who has these same problems that you leave yourself open to repeating these same behaviors,” Noe said. She credited Rowe with maintaining a “cooperative and beneficial” relationship with her children and former husband and with completing every rehabilitation program she has been placed in.

She told Rowe to also solve her relationship problem with the convicted sex offender.

“You have lit too many fires in your life and you are done,” Noe said. “Get it straight or it won’t matter if you are here or in prison.”